Indian Point 3 was manually shut down after control room operators observed fluctuating water levels inside a steam generator.
Operators say that one of the unit’s condensation pumps malfunctioned. The pump feeds water to the system’s steam generators.
This was the third time in three weeks that the nuclear reactor was taken offline.
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